Lead Academic and Research Librarian - Pipers Corner School

Lead Academic and Research Librarian - Pipers Corner School

Location: High Wycombe

Job Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience

Contract Type: Permanent

To start either September 2024 or January 2025

Closing Date for Applications: Monday 3 March 2024

About Us

Pipers Corner is a Girls’ School Association Independent School for girls aged 4-18, set in 96 acres of beautiful Chiltern countryside, four miles north of High Wycombe and two miles from Great Missenden. In its most recent ISI inspection (March 2023), the school was graded as “excellent” in all categories.

Responsibilities

1. Ensure that the library is further developed as a vibrant learning environment, leading on independent learning and critical thinking both within the library and the school.
2. Maintain the library as integral to the development of a whole school Literacy Policy.
3. Lead/support both fiction and non-fiction research classes with set library classes in Years 7 and 8 and older years by arrangement leading up to VI Form EPQ projects.
4. Encourage a high level of interest from students and staff by maintaining the profile of the library, working with departments towards whole school approaches to reading and research, and leading on new initiatives, promotions, and events, including the Pipers Literary Festival.

Qualifications

1. Professionally qualified with experience as a Librarian with a desire to apply this knowledge and skill within a school environment, but we are open to candidates with alternative experience but relevant skills and passion.
2. Inspirational in the fields of research and love of reading.
3. Dedicated to fostering curiosity through reading and research to students of all ages.

Completed application forms and a covering letter should be addressed to the Headmistress and returned to HR via the email address above.

Suitable candidates may be interviewed before the closing date, and Pipers Corner School reserves the right to withdraw the position if an early appointment is made.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

• All unspent convictions and conditional cautions.
• All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete a self-disclosure form and return it prior to the interview.